Social Network, my take on it.

I may be the one and only person within my friends and relative who actually have ditched Facebook; not that i wasn’t amused about the updates, and not due to being afraid of the “dangers of social networks knowing everything about us” – but simply because i found it waste of time, and way to little content of relevance for myself.

I did, on the other hand – take a peek at the Google+(Plus) service, as offered by Google.

I have found Google+ to be a very decent social network, and a nice interface. Posting links and status updates on both Google and FB, I found it easier to provide the broadcast to the intended audience, and quite often the Google audience has been more active (Lets think about this for a moment).

I have always known that most of the things that appeared on Google+ are actually possible on FB as well. Google just did a better job of making the tools more easy to use and available where people can find and use them – IE a simplified interface.

The challenge for Google+ is one of defining its value proposition. It is a great social network, and it has a lot to offer–but what it has to offer is already available for the most part from FB.

Personally, I don’t see the value right now. I like Google+, but the vast majority of what it offers are just variations of what Facebook has already offered for years – and since i just plain and simple got bored of this, it has become … Welll … Nothing of interest.

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